Brace for a UK election next year, Corbyn says

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during news conference at the United Nations Office in Geneva

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said there is likely to be a British national election next year but that he opposes a second referendum on European Union membership, Grazia magazine reported.

Prime Minister Theresa May lost her Conservative Party its majority in parliament by betting on a snap election in June, weakening her hand in Brexit negotiations. Labour by contrast did well at the election, making a net gain of 30 seats in Britain’s 650-seat parliament.

Corbyn, a lifelong socialist, who has repeatedly claimed that he will win power, said there would soon be another election.

“There will probably be another election in the next 12 months,” he was quoted by Grazia as saying. He predicted his Labour Party would win.

“I’m ready to be Prime Minister tomorrow,” Corbyn said.

Corbyn, who said he voted against EU membership in a 1975 referendum but voted for membership in 2016, said he opposed former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair’s proposal for another referendum on membership.

“Some were extremely irresponsible in what they did and said, but we have to recognise it was the largest participation of people in an electoral process ever in Britain and they chose to leave,” Corbyn was quoted as saying.

“I think we should continue putting pressure on the government to allow a transition period to develop, because at the moment we’re in danger of getting into a complete mess in March 2019,” Corbyn said, referring to the date Britain is due to leave the EU.

Ignore the silly old fool. He said he’d be PM one month after he lost the election. He then said it’d be 6 months after the elections. He’s now saying ‘next year’. Mr antisemitic, Islamic terrorist and IRA supporting lunatic won’t be winning any elections. The next elections are in 4 years time.

Douglas

He is not fit for purpose but the remoaners on Brexit might vote for him irrespectively.

NuffSaid

Why Douglas? Corbyn is a brexiter.

Douglas

It’s catch up time understanding Labour Party agenda,they would resort to anything like the promise to give students free University education, they will scupper Brexit if they thought it would win them votes 🙂

Gipsy Eyes

All political parties will resort to anything if they think it will win them votes. You need to look over the last seven years with regards to what the Tories promised before you advise others to “catch up” understanding Labour Party agendas. Free university education is not such a far fetched policy. I went to university for free and even received a maintenance grant. I believe Germany, France and Italy all have free university education as does Scotland. I’m sure there are others. Your are far more likely to benefit from all the talent in your society when you make higher education free than simply restricting to those who can afford to pay for it!. So please don’t make it sound as if Corbyn is promising the moon!

Gregos Winston

Free education which is generously offered by Scotland, is paid for by London. If Scotland was to go independent, they’d lose their ‘free’ education and their ‘free’ NHS.

Germany and France do not have free university education. It’s certainly cheaper than the UK, but not free,

Gipsy Eyes

All 16 German states abolished university fees for public universities in 2014. France may not be entirely free but there are plenty of opportunities for free university education: far more than in the UK.
What Scotland decides to do with the funds it receives from London is its own decision. So if London is willing to allow Scotland to offer its people free higher education the question you should be asking is why London is not willing to offer the same privilege to the English.
In a recent report on the devolved NHS services England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were doing worse than they had been since the previous report. The best performing NHS was Scotland whose performance had remained the same.

Gregos Winston

He’s a Brexitier who’d sell his soul to become PM.

Gipsy Eyes

Unlike Mrs Remain who is currently carrying the poison chalice.

cyprusclive

I think even the most die-hard of Socialists wouldn’t vote for Corbyn. He might get votes in Venezuela. The Pound would plunge, he would borrow like mad to cripple the country and wold re-join the EU despite having been anti-EU for decades with Weggie Benn. UK’s worst nightmare.

Gipsy Eyes

I would imagine the irony is wasted on many here that it is Conservative ineptitude over the last few years that has given rise to the possibility that Jeremy Corbyn could be PM this time next.
As for the UK’s “worst nightmare” I seriously doubt he could be any worse than the party that’s been running the country for the last seven and a half years!

Gregos Winston

No, the illegal cheating by way of double voting has given the ‘rise’ to ‘popularity’ of Corbyn.

Gipsy Eyes

So Labour voters have two votes to the Conservatives one?

Gregos Winston

Exactly. The fact that he still lost the elections, even with the now proven double voting for Labour says it all.

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